Daily Archives: Apr 17, 2015

An easy question for you “Unique Key is Clustered or Nonclustered”? Lets explain in more detail, When I create a Unique key on a table without explicitly defining the type of index(clustered or nonclustered), which type of index will be used to accommodate the key?

I have already written a blog on behavior of primary key for clustered and nonclustered index type selection in such kind of scenarios and here is the link. In this post titled as “Unique Key is Clustered or Nonclustered”, we will explore the behavior of Unique Key in regards of Clustered and Nonclustered index type selection. Before going forward, I would like to focus on the differences between Primary Key and Uniquer Key below.

Difference between Primary Key and Unique Key

Primary key

It is a column or set of columns, used to uniquely identify each row of the given table.